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As widely expected, Andy Lack will become chairman of NBC News and MSNBC. He will start in April, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke announced in a staff memo Friday. Lack's challenges will include leading the shaken "NBC Nightly News" and guiding the struggling MSNBC to a comeback. "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams last month was suspended for six months without pay for embellishing his accounts of reporting on the Iraq War. Lester Holt is filling in, and speculation swirls about whether Williams will return. NBC is conducting an in-house investigation into Williams. Lack, 67, will report directly to Burke. Pat Fili-Krushel, who had overseen the news...

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